Perioperative anemia and red blood cell transfusions are important risk factors for morbidity and mortality in cardiac ...

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New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), in collaboration with several other groups, are now available for the perioperative evaluation and ...

Patients who need medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) should continue to receive them prior to surgery, rather than stopping those drugs, as has been the convention. Maintaining use of ...